BL04 50 Ways to be a Blogger

PETE&C 2009
BL04 50 Ways to be a Blogger (L. Jannotta - in Hershey)
(not too thrilled with this one...)
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everything will be found later on: elearningconcepts.wordpress.com
actually, 54 things...

Mary Nicholson - Professor at Bloomsberg University

create an account (free)
blogger.com
wordpress - most popular at the moment
can have multiple accts on both
edublogs.org - community of teacher/students, looks like wordpress

typepad.com - $$$

ELearningConcepts - theme

Decisions for blogs
- how many columns
- columns for widgets and navigation or links
- colors
- upload your own headers
- width - can be strechable CSS coding
- area management
- on wordpress, you can add pages on your blog - called pages
- links on top too...

Good widget - called a blog roll.. you can rename it
Archives
Calender
Tag List or Cloud
More widgets...
Bios

Content

hyperlinks
Add authors
Hosting on your own server
download your own templates -search for wordpress templates

Advanced featuresRSS feed for blog for students to subscribe to
Blog search engines - technorati - finds comments and posting, not necessarily the entire blog
Google blog search
Media portfolio
Learning community - eLearning Learning Community
Professional organizations
School Library Association
Writing projects
Resources - in a blog format instead of Delicious
Microblogging... twitter
Twitter used to announce what is on blog


Legal Guide for Bloggers - also a link to a student Legal Guide
Blogging Tips for Beginners

Will Richardson - good blog to check out - weblogg-ed

Photoshop Insider - great blog... guest blogger on Wednesday